Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Unofficial Google Shell

I have been waiting for google shell. I thought they will name it gshell, but it turns out:
goosh.org - the unofficial google shell ( http://goosh.org/ ).
It is pretty neat and useful in its neonatal state itself, like to read a feed, you can type, for eg:

r http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/11136726768885096694/label/cbn-roll

and gets default 4 latest feeds, or you can check out a ncbi accession by typing, for eg:

NP_001108376

and get to the Fugu fish refseq link.

The most useful thing is the fact that it it text based and quite easy to parse visually as well as via scripts.
Another cool feature for me right now is the shell translation, like to get the english word for the norwegian word 'hvor', all I have to do is type:

t no en hvor

which correctly says:
translating "hvor" from "no" to "en":

"where"

More discussion going on at http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/02/222234&from=rss .
Enjoy!
clipped from goosh.org
Goosh goosh.org 0.4.3-beta #1 Mon, 02 Jun 08 22:28:01 UTC Google/Ajax
help

commandaliasesparametersfunction
web(search,s,w)[keywords]google web search
lucky(l)[keywords]go directly to first result
images(image,i)[keywords]google image search
wiki(wikipedia)[keywords]wikipedia search
clear(c)
clear the screen
help(man,h,?)[command]displays help text
news(n)[keywords]google news search
blogs(blog,b)[keywords]google blog search
feeds(feed,f)[keywords]google feed search
open(o)<url>open url in new window
go(g)<url>open url
more(m)
get more results
in(site)<url> <keywords>search in a specific website
load
<extension_url>load an extension
video(videos,v)[keywords]google video search
read(rss,r)<url>read feed of url
place(places,map,p)[address]google maps search
lang
<language>change language
addengine

add goosh to firefox search box
translate(trans,t)[lang1] [lang2] <words>google translation

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